ANOTHER INFORMATION BUREAU.
To-day's Problems and the Replies to Them.
The Cost of Ennoblement.—A Lover of Art.—A Very Natural Inquiry.—The Oaks.—A Remarkable Old Master.—A Delicate Trial of Tact.—Old Books.—Mr. Kipling.
The Cost of Ennoblement.
Can you tell me what I should have to pay to become a marquis? My wife
has a great desire to be a marchioness before she dies. Is there the
title of marchioness in any other country besides England? I mean, do
you think I could get it done in, say, Turkey or some place in need of
money? Not America, I suppose? Anything you can tell me about it will be
useful and will earn our gratitude.—H. F. G. (Bedford Park).
The market price of a marquisate at this moment is £150,000. A few questions are asked. It is not usual to make a commoner a marquis at one step. There are no Turkish marquisates, nor any yet in Albania, but as one never knows what that country may bring forth perhaps it would be wise to wait a little. America confers no titles of such importance as marquis, but a dental degree is not difficult to obtain at, say, Milwaukee. Tammany has its bosses, but that title carries with it no distinction for the wife.
A Lover of Art.
Can you tell me where the best choppers are to be obtained and what are
the most valuable pictures in the Tate Gallery?—F. W. M.(Chelsea).